Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Af-fairs (DVA) have announced that service members are no longer authorized to use both Tuition Assistance and DVA benefits from the Montgomery GI Bill-Selected Re-serve program (Chapter 1606) or Reserve Educational As-sistance Program (Chapter 1607 for the same course.

Soldiers may use both FTA and GI Bill benefits during a term, as long as they don’t use both benefits for the same course.

This does not affect Soldiers using TA and Montgomery GI Bill – Active Duty program (Chapter 30) or Post-9/11 GI Bill program (Chapter 33) simultaneously for the same course. Please contact me, your VA School Certi-fying Official (SCO) or the DVA at 1-888-442-4551 or www.benefits.va.gov.